Gruppo TNT finalist with Quantum at IBC for TVHilites at Mediaset

Gruppo TNT is shortlisted as a finalist, in partnership with Quantum, to an "IBC Innovation Award" for the "TVHilites" media content management project at Mediaset

Gardone Val Trompia (BS) - Italy - September 2008
Gruppo TNT was selected as a finalist for the 2008 IBC Innovation Awards, as a technological partner of Mediaset, in the content management category, together with Quantum for the StorNext filesystem, and DataDirect Networks for the storage.The candidature for the prestigious recognition, which is awarded each year to a limited number of companies that show a high level of technological innovation in their products, is motivated by the sport highlights production system, created by Gruppo TNT for Mediaset.

"Quantum is immensely proud to be shortlisted for the IBC2008 Awards. The deployment at Mediaset was a show case example of how Quantum technology can help the media and entertainment industry quickly and efficiently access video footage, audio files, hi-res images and other content against ever tightening deadlines."
— Alistair Washbourn, Software Marketing Manager EMEA, Quantum Corporation

"It is an honour to be on the shortlist of candidates at the IBC2008 Awards. Working with Quantum and its partners, Mediaset is capitalizing on a flexible storage environment to manage large quantities of content cost effectively and enable tapeless workflow—all the way from live ingest to archive."
— Mauro Cassanmagnago, Director of Technology, Mediaset S.p.A

The leading Italian commercial television network, Mediaset Group, was relying on traditional video servers to store and play out broadcast material, most notably the soccer matches involving the Italian domestic league and The Champions League. This fast paced environment demands real-time, live events logging and editing, instant replays of soccer highlights, and slow motion—all via joggling, rewinding, and shuttling. The outcome of the broadcaster’s reliance on video servers was a growing proliferation of servers—all with their own, separate storage environments.

The first step was to deploy Gruppo TNT TVHilites for highlights production and playback, including network, storage, logging, and editing applications. The video tapeless technology allows editors to cut, edit and replay, while the system is still recording, making it suitable for all live and near-live football environments.

To tackle the shared file system conundrum and complement the TVHilites environment, Mediaset chose Quantum StorNext. “The reason for choosing Quantum StorNext was straightforward. We wanted the best, high performance digital archiving system on the market,” said Mauro Cassanmagnago, Director of Technology, Mediaset SpA. The result is an innovative, shared environment that handles live ingest, editing and play out, combined with near-line and long term archive, for reduced complexity and increased performance. Editors and other resources can work concurrently, in the HD ready environment, with the ability to re-play live events and other high visibility content quickly with play out straight from disk. Simultaneously, the Quantum solution is reducing storage infrastructure costs. Cassanmagnago says, “By standardizing on this unified storage solution from Quantum, Mediaset is quickly and efficiently accessing crucial broadcast footage in the face of tight deadlines. By partnering with Quantum, Mediaset is making the process of playout more flexible and improving overall performance.”

Alistair Washbourn, Software Marketing Manager EMEA at Quantum adds, “What makes StorNext so special is that it manages multiple types of storage—including Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, and LTO tapes for long-term archive—and includes affinities. These affinities steer data within the file system to a specific disk device and can be used to move Mediaset’s crucial high throughput files to a Fibre Channel disk volume while temporary files can be stored in a directory that is tied to SATA disk. Users and applications do not see this operation: they simply see the directory structure of the file system.”

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